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Screenplay Nicholas Meyer
Director Robert Benton

The Human Stain

Tagline: How far would you go to escape the past?

Release Date: 2003-10-29

Duration: 106 minutes

Synopsis

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

Casting

  • Nicole Kidman
    Faunia Farley
  • Wentworth Miller
    Young Coleman Silk
  • Anthony Hopkins
    Coleman Silk
  • Anne Dudek
    Lisa Silk
  • Ed Harris
    Lester Farley
  • Kerry Washington
    Ellie
  • Jacinda Barrett
    Steena Paulsson
  • John Cenatiempo
    Boxer
  • Mili Avital
    Young Iris
  • Jeff Perry
    Tennis Player